Mailing-form.



S. M. FORD.

MAILING FORM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9' l9l8- PatentedJan.14,l9lQ.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS MjFoRD, or s1. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

MAILING-FORM.

Application filed March 9, 1918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Sims M. FORD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing-Forms, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide in a mailing form a permanent folding card for carrying printed records thereon, with a means for carrying a pencil through the mails.

Another object of my invention is to provide, with a permanent price list, a pencil carrier with the pencilitself joining the two articles.

Another object of my invention is to provide a pencil carrier with both ends of the pencil concealed.

l/Vith these and incidental objects in view the invention consists of certain novel fea tures of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are hereinafter described with reference to the drawing which accompanies and forms a part of this specification.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved invention partially opened; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the mailing form ready for the mail. Fig. 3 is a view similar to the one shown in Fig. 1, but with the form opened up. Fig. 4 is a front view of the lower folding portion of the mailing sheet shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the folding portion used to conceal the pencil.

The mailing form consists of a main or body sheet 1, foldable on the lines 2 and 3, and carrying on the inner face thereof a price list or other data which would be of permanent value to acustomer.

The inner folding portion 4, Figs. 1 and 4, has slits 5 cut therein to register with the slits 6 of the body portion 7 of the pencil carrier, as shown in Fig. 5.

In folding up the form, the pencil 8, Fig. 3, ispassed through the slit 5, Fig. 4, slit 6, Fig. 5, then through the two slits 9, back through the second slit 6 and out through the second slit 5, Fig. 4, leaving the pencil, the inner folding portion 4 of the sheet 1, and the pencil carrier held together as shown in Fig. 3.

The portions 10 of the pencil carrier are then folded inwardly and a folded order blank 11, Fig. 1, placed over the lap of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

Serial No.221,559.

portions 10, the outer folding portion of the mailing form folded down over the joined pencil carrier, inner folding portion 4 of the body sheet and the order blank 11, and the whole closed with a clip 12, Fig. 2, ready for the mail.

It will be seen from Figs. 1, 2 and 3 that the pencil 8 is thus carried inside of the mailing form with both ends of the pencil concealed and securely held so the pencil cannot be lost during transit through the mails.

As there are no portions of any of the material cut out in preparing the mailing form as the pencil is carried only in slits cut or' sheared through the material, this style of form readily lends itself to advertising matter and both sides of the pencil carrier 7, including the folding portions 10, preferably have advertising matter printed thereon as does the back surface of the inner folding portion 4 of the main sheet, all of the front surface of the main sheet preferably being reserved for a price list.

The order blank 11 is preferably of the type having a gummed edge so it may be folded. in and returned to the selling com pany with practically no trouble on the part of the customer.

While I am aware that mailing forms have been devised carrying pencils therein, I believe myself to be the first to combine a pencil carrier and a price list card, the pencil joining the two. and also the first to devise a pencil carrier having the ends of the pencil concealed and restrained from motion by a part of the carrier folded thereover against the main sheet.

Therefore, while I have described my in vention and illustrated it inone particular design. I do not wish it understood that I limit myself to this construction, as it is evident that the application of the invention may be varied in many ways within the scope of the following claims.

Claims:

1. As an article of manufacture a mailing form comprising a main sheet having a central portion and an inner folding portion and an outer folding portion, said inner.

folding portion having two slits therein, one near each end, a pencil carrier having a main portion and two folding portions, one at each end, said main portion having two slits therein to correspond with the slits in said main sheet, the folding portions of said penoil carrier being adapted to fold back over the inner folding portion of said main sheet to cover the ends of a pencil carried through the slits of said pencil carrier and said main sheet.

2. As an article of manufacture a mailing form comprising a main sheet having an inner folding portion and an outer folding portion, said inner folding portion having a slit near each end thereof, a pencil carrier having a main portion and two folding portions, said main portion having a pair of parallel slits near each end of said main portion whereby a pencil may be carried, passed through the slits of said pencil carrier and the slits of the inner folding portion of said main sheet, and the folding portions of said pencil carrier folded over the ends of the pencil carried therein.

3. In a mailing form the combination of a main sheet having an inwardly folding end and an outwardly folding end, a pencil carrier, slits in said pencil carrier and said inwardly folding end whereby a pencil may be carried thereby and bind together said inwardly folding end and said pencil carrier said main sheet having a price list printed on the inner face thereof.

at. A mailing form comprising a main sheet having an inwardly folding end, an outwardly folding end to fold over said inwardly folding end and carry thereon an address, a pencil carrying strip associated with the inwardly folding end of said main sheet and having slits therein corresponding with slits in said inwardly folding end, foldable tabs on said pencil carrier to foldover the ends of a pencil carried in said slits, said pencil carrier having advertising matter printed thereon, said main sheet having a price list printed onits inner face and ad-V vertising matter printed on the outer face of said inwardly folding end.

SILAS M. FORD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

